Quotes About Loneliness

his eyes took in the barren slopes and the scattered boulders and the lonley gray road windingits way into the fading hills,and i could feel him thinking to himself this is no place to die

Why shine, when there's nothing to shine on?

Det finns dagar då allt ljus har slocknat och alla du möter är kalla och fulla av hat. De bryr sig inte om någon-ting. Och i dag var det en sådan dag.

I looked her in the eye, trying to see beyond the pose, trying to imagine what she was like when she was alone... but I couldn't see it. That sort of girl is never alone, because without other people they have to be themselves, and they can't stand themselves.

before I knew you I kept a sparrow in a shoebox, I fed it ham and held it to my head to hear it sing, I called it a radio, it kept the blues away, I called it love and wrote down all the words, — Kevin Prufer, from "Ars Poetica," Kenyon Review (vol. 36, no. 1, Winter 2014)

I realize that nothing is really normal. All it takes to alter normalcy is a death or a birth. Or just some misguided fear, love, or loneliness that never goes away.

To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling.

After thirty minutes, he began to wonder if Annie had simply forgotten about him, returned to the house after the movie, and got drunk on vodka tonics. "Come get me," Buster whispered, hoping to create a psychic link to his sister.

To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling.

At night I count not the stars but the dark.

Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked 'What knowest thou of this wilderness?' It replied : 'I can sum it up in two words: 'Alas! Alas

...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.

Loneliness is not about what happens when you are alone, but what happens when you are with others. It is about how willing you are to open your heart and allow another to get close to you.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

Summer thought about spending the day inside that house with the old woman watching. Silently watching.

Well, now, what do you expect? You're His child. Of course you're going to be lonely when you hold yourself from Him.

From now on, the sound of my nights will be the sound of her abscence.

Lady Thorton never went to boarding school. She seems to imagine it as a sort of jolly holiday." Susan had gone to boarding school. "Was it?" "No," Susan said. "Mind you, I didn't hate it. But sometimes being in a group of girls is just as lonely as being alone.

Why does the Dragon hate Phantom so?" she asked as she washed her face while Christian placed a small trunk of personal items beside their bed. "Basically everyone hates Phantom, Adara. He was never one to go out of his way to make a friend." "Yet you befriended him. Why?" He shrugged. "No one deserves to be alone. He needed a friend, he just didn't know it.

The solitude became a habit, the habit became the man, and it crushed him into a shadow.

Ocurre de vez en cuando: se te viene encima un gran vacío, es como si la misma falta de sentido de la existencia se te metiera dentro y se extendiera como un inmenso y desnudo paisaje.

and what was left was only man calling to Almighty God, aching to feel another human heart beating next to his own, so that together they could defy the eternal emptiness